"North Carolinians are pretty compassionate people. If you say you're going to hurt children and families, they'll come down on the other side." — Jen Jones

"If marriage is radically redefined as a way of just affirming loving feelings of attraction, then equality will require people who love ice cream to marry ice cream." — Daniel Heimbach of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

"I think Jesus wants us to have that conversation about what it means to be together and to be family. But that's not the conversation that is being promoted by Amendment 1." — the Rev. Amy Laura Hall of Duke University Divinity School

Starting at 501 feet below the surface of Brightleaf at the Park, the mineral rights—ownership of natural gas, oil, geothermal heat, hydrocarbons, even water—belong to DRH Energy, a subsidiary of D.R. Horton.

"North Carolinians are pretty compassionate people. If you say you're going to hurt children and families, they'll come down on the other side." — Jen Jones

"If marriage is radically redefined as a way of just affirming loving feelings of attraction, then equality will require people who love ice cream to marry ice cream." — Daniel Heimbach of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

"I think Jesus wants us to have that conversation about what it means to be together and to be family. But that's not the conversation that is being promoted by Amendment 1." — the Rev. Amy Laura Hall of Duke University Divinity School

To call it apologetic would be reductive; to say that it's driven in part by the need to experience, understand and connect several once-forbidden dots seems closer to the essence.

Where Snatches of Pink plunged into the grimiest corners with Saturday night's dregs, STAG's debut, Kin, sits on the brink of Sunday morning, glimpsing those virgin rays of light with weary bemusement. (Louds Hymn)